Thanks for all the comments. I'm still thinking them over and seeing where this leads me.

Have to admit, the best place for anyone who wanted to download anything into Avon's brain would have been the Ultra, but making a connection between them and the System (not to mention evil conspiracies) is a little beyond me at this point.

Oh, from the stray thought file. I have toyed with a story idea where the Ultra (to answer the question about whether Aurons and humans were the same species) combined one of Cally's egg cells with one of Avon's sperm while the two were unconscious and then implanted the embryo in her to see what would happen.

Actually, this idea never gets past the amusing part where Cally runs medical tests, realizes what's happened, gets Orac to run tests confirming paternity, and she tells Avon (I see him looking very much like he's been hit by a two by four). After that, I'm afraid Avon would become an overprotective father type, put a moratorium on even vaguely dangerous missions and stay out of the Federation's way. The main up spot would be that, when Servalan's faked messages from Terminal start coming in, Avon would tell Zen to be quiet and hold all calls without even asking who this was supposed to be coming from.

Come to think of it, if the call came at the right time, Zen could start to tell Avon it was from Blake and Avon might say, "Tell him I'll get back to him!"

Ellynne

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